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EclipseCon Europe 2012 Submissions

Jul 12, 2012

The deadline for EclipseCon Europe early bird submissions is approaching (July 15th). Before the submission deadline, the program committee will pre-select a short list of their favorite talks and …

Reducing CouchDB disk space consumption

Jul 11, 2012

Apache CouchDB offers high availability, excellent throughput and scalability. These goals were achieved using immutable data structures - but they have a price: disk space. CouchDB was designed under …

Github everywhere with venture funding?

Jul 10, 2012

Github has announced a Series A round of venture funding today. They are taking 100 million USD from Andreessen Horowitz - and at least the first part of the name should be familiar to software …

Building lightweight in memory caches with Google Guava - no more putIfAbsent

Jul 9, 2012

I can’t count the number of times I found myself implementing some sort of cache. In many situations caching is really useful e.g. when the computation of a value is expensive or when loading of …

Eclipse 4 Theme - 'New' vs 'Classic'

Jul 6, 2012

A few days ago, my colleague Ian ended his excellent and famous Top 10 Eclipse Juno Features List with his #1: the Eclipse 4.x Platform. As Ian mentionend, Eclipse 4 brings a whole new look to the …

Developing RAP applications with Virgo

Jul 5, 2012

This post shows how to develop RAP applications with Virgo. The first part guides you through the setup for a Virgo Server instance and how to extend it to become a RAP runtime. The second part is a …